Identity in education / edited by Susan Sánchez-Casal and Amie A. Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sánchez-Casal, Susan.

Macdonald, Amie A.

Series:

Future of minority studies

The future of minority studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Education (Higher).

United States.

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Discrimination in higher education.

Educational attainment--United States.

Educational attainment.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

xv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This edited volume explores the impact of social identity (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion and so on) on teaching and learning. Operating within a realist framework, the contributors to this volume (all of whom are minority scholars) consider ways to productively engage identity in the classroom and at the institutional level, as a means of working toward racial democracy in higher education. As realists, all authors in the volume hold the theoretical position that identities are both real and constructed, and that identities are always epistemically salient. Thus the book argues-from diverse disciplinary and educational contexts-that mobilizing identities in academia is a necessary part of progressive (antiracist, feminist, anticolonial) educators' efforts to transform knowledge making, to establish critical access for minority students in higher education, and to create a more just and democratic society.

Contents:

Part 1 Critical Access and Progressive Education

1 Identity, Realist Pedagogy, and Racial Democracy in Higher Education / Susan Sánchez-Casal, Amie A. Macdonald 9

2 What's Identity Got to Do with It? Mobilizing Identities in the Multicultural Classroom / Paula M. L. Moya 45

3 Fostering Cross-Racial Mentoring: White Faculty and African American Students at Harvard College / Richard J. Reddick 65

Part 2 Curriculum and Identity

4 Which America Is Ours? Martí's "Truth" and the Foundations of "American Literature" / Michael Hames-García 103

5 The Mis-Education of Mixed Race / Michele Elam 131

6 Ethnic Studies Requirements and the Predominantly White Classroom / Kay Yandell 151

7 Historicizing Difference in The English Patient: Teaching Kip Alongside His Sources / Paulo Lemos Horta 171

Part 3 Realist Pedagogical Strategies

8 Teaching Disclosure: Overcoming the Invisibility of Whiteness in the American Indian Studies Classroom / Sean Kicummah Teuton 191

9 Religious Identities and Communities of Meaning in The Realist Classroom / William S. Wilkerson 211

10 Postethnic America? A Multicultural Training Camp for Americanists and Future EFL Teachers / Barbara Buchenau, Carola Hecke, Paula M. L. Moya, J. Nicole Shelton 225

11 The Uses of Error: Toward a Realist Methodology of Student Evaluation / John J. Su 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230609163

9780230609167

0230609171

9780230609174

OCLC:

276930405

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